Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-23
lINEAL DESCENT
OF the Family of Liars Whose
Business is Sensational
Correspondence.
The "Eli Perkins" OF Fort Keogh
Handled Without Gloves by
Indignant Citizens.
Lieut.. Particle Denies the Au-
tborship of These Specials, the
Blame Resting Elsewhere.

Blame Resting Elsewhere.
WHOLESALE LYING
By an Erratic scribbler at Fort Keogh,
Montana.
Editor YKLLowsToSE JOURNAL:
That ardent lover of truth, Ell Per.
kins, says that Noah bad another son
beside those mentioned In the Bible,
whom he refused TO let into the Ark ON
account of his being such o horrible
liar, and says the Devil took care Of
this fellow aud he did not drown. Eli
claims linesl descent from that ante
diluvisn liar, and also states that
another branch Of the family settled
ut Fort Keogh, NJ. T., Q member of
" .ich in the present day fully sustains
the reputation Of his lying ancestor.
Let me quote from the most recent
of this vigorous liar, pub
lished IN the New York World Of the
18th inst, headed Especial from Fort
Keogh, Montsna." "The snow fall 10
In some localities IL
10 anywhere from ten TO fifteen feet
on the level. Such q heavy
fall has brought more or less suffering
aud death. Near Matt Coleman's
ranch, January 18th. the fixes were
larger than milk cans. Some dakes
measured fifteen Inches long and zig ht
inches thick. For miles the ground
was covered with such bupcbes snd il
vas q remarkable sight while falling.
A mail carrier was caught 10 the same
storm and veri6es It," Now suppos-
ing that the "dinner plate fakes" OF
snow fell ut the rate Of one second for
twenty-four hours, and fake per sec.
ond is nothing unusual, what do We
find 4? Whv, simply this. At the end
Of . days snow storm these snow
flakes" would be piled up $1,000 feet
high! Munchsusen's snow story Is
not patch" TO this one. But 1t is q
fact that there was not any snow fell
on January 2Sth, and the Fort KeoRh
specisln made this lie out of the whole
cloth. This veracious "special's" let
ter is 100 long TO quote fully. l shall
therefore merely give q few more
frightful fibs about losses iu
stock In the locality OF Miles City.
His letter Is an iucohereni jumble Of
newspaper clippings FROM Montana 10
canada. He says:
Twelve hundred out Of 500 sheep
were lost in one locality and the sur
vivors were so badly mutilated by
coyotes and wolves That many died.
Some sheep men in western Montana
have lost whole heI d.. Long lines Of
cattle have been seen drifting into the
Missouri river, and heresbOuts many
hundreds have perished In water
holes"
Now, will the Fort Keogh poet name
the sheep grower who lost 100 out Of
500, and those who have Loot whole
herds? | rather think II will bother
him TO do so.
The Missouri river Is frozen solid
with about three feet of ice, and how
"long lines of cattle could drift into
the river" passes comprehension. Pos
sibly these long lines OF cattle" want
ed 70 commit suicide, but bow could
they get through three feet OF ice
Permit me to state the pain fact,
about the losses 10 stock In the vicin
ity of Miles City. have taken pain,
to collect from all the reliable parties
here who have seen dead cattle, III.
total number up TO date, and not oveI
900 10 800 head have been discov'
cred. Now, last fall, there were $50,
100 head Of cattle 10 Custer county, 81
that 30 far rs known, the losses are not
one per cent. No acurate knowl'
edge Of losses In stock can bt
stated, as the snow is too deep 10 ride
over the ranges, and our cattle men
have not yet taken to snow shoes, but
will state that to-day thoroughly
reliable man came into town from =
distance Of thirty miles up the Tongue
river aud he said that he had ridder
through band of 900 head OF cattle
and they looked well, aud be had no
seen Q single dead animal.
/ have resided two decades In Mon
tana. and the present winter does no
begin to compare In severity will
some have seen; l recollect well. on
winter some years ago, when the mer
curry was frozen for weeks, and on thu
18th Of March II was 800 below zero
vet cattle did not die; the fact 10 tba
native Montana cattle will live wber
buffalo live, and the ''oldest inhabi
tantn never heard Of q buffalo freezinl
TO death.
The rot and rubbish Of this For
Keogh special correspondent merel,
excites laughter here, but in New Yorl
and other eastern points may caus
anxiety to capitalists who have inves
ted In cattle 10 Montana and In pros
poets and In loans In Miles City; wha
\ depth ofdegredstion this Fort Keogl
special decends to In order to earn tn
miserable pittance paid him for vslify
ing the country In which he earns hi
bread and how contemptihle 10 pan
der to the sensational appetite Of east
ern "Vtrdant Greens"
WILLIAM C0URrENAY.
Miles City, Feb. q, 1887.
The article referred TO by Mr.. Courte
nay has been shown us. 1t was pub
llshed In the Boston Globe Of Febru
ary l4tb, and credited to the World
special Fort Keogh correspondent
Who this veracious gentleman is W
do not know. Public opinion In thi